William Butler Yeats — "I have seen the future, and it is terrible."

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere. The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction; w…"

"Christ was still the half-brother of Dionysius."

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

"Civilisation is hooped together, brought. Under a rule, under the semblance of peace. By manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease, Ravening through centur…"

"I have come to feel towards it [The Land of Heart's Desire] as O'Grady feels towards it sometimes & even a little as some of my stupidest critics feel. As so often happens with a thing one has been te…"